From the Morning Post
Morocco.
Gibraltar, .
Intelligence had reached Fez that the Sultan had sent orders to all governors of towns and ports to discontinue the imposition of tolls or gate taxes on animals carrying merchandise or produce.
This measure had given great satisfaction to the native population, especially at Fez, where a spirit of serious disaffection had been evinced, on the advent of Mulai Hassen to the throne, in consequence of these taxes.
It is said the removal of these taxes has been unceasingly urged upon the attention of the Moorish Government by the foreign representatives, but their ultimate removal is supposed to have been at the advice of his Highness Mulai Abbas, who urged their abolition on the Sultan.
At Larache it is reported some disturbance has taken place through the contractors who had bought the monopoly of levying the tax refusing to submit to the order of the Sultan.
The toll-keepers were stoned by the mob, and the governor was compelled to put them in prison to protect them from the fury of the populace.
Serious disturbances had some time since taken place at Azemor, Sallee, Fez, and Alkasan on account of the continuation of the tax.
